X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d87bc07d86715d70987a8143596e48b27e052743;hb=e14fab65b45d27bd4204470e85dafdd3725a1f3f;hp=5ad384a9c0f7bc1c8a331bd60dc5db0ad711c8d3;hpb=6e7f5b494d8329cb69375f1f504aeaaac4dd0488;p=privoxy.git diff --git a/README b/README index 5ad384a9..d87bc07d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * * Purpose : README file to give a short intro. * - * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2008 the SourceForge + * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the SourceForge * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ * * Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written @@ -32,47 +32,37 @@ * *********************************************************************/ -This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.9. See +This README is included with the development version of Privoxy 3.0.14. See http://www.privoxy.org/ for more information. The current code maturity level is "beta", but seems stable to us :). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for -enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling -access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. -Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual -needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and -multi-user networks. +enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling +access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a +flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and +tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user +networks. -Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm). +Privoxy is Free Software and licensed under the GPL2. + +Privoxy is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). +Donations are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. IMPORTANT CHANGES -June 2008, Privoxy 3.0.9 beta is released. There are no major new features, but -many improvements and refinements. As usual there are changes that affect the -configuration. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" section and the -"Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details and specifics. - -NEWS! January 2008, Privoxy 3.0.8 stable is released. This is a significant -upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. All Privoxy -users are encouraged to upgrade. See the "ChangeLog", and the "What's New" -section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the User Manual for details and -specifics. There are changes related to configuration, so anyone upgrading and -keeping their old configuration should read ahead first. - -December 2007, Privoxy 3.0.7 is released. This is a beta release in preparation -for the forthcoming 3.0.8 release. +July 2009, Privoxy 3.0.14 beta is released. -NEWS! November 2006, Privoxy 3.0.6 stable is released. This is a significant -upgrade with many new and enhanced features, and many bugs fixed. +This is a bugfix-release for the previous beta which introduced IPv6 support, +improved keep-alive support and a bunch of minor improvements. See the +"ChangeLog", and the "What's New" section and the "Upgrader's Notes" in the +User Manual for details. -There was and will not be an official 3.0.4 release. This release cycle was -used to gather our thoughts, play with some new ideas and refine some old ones. -It will remain a development cycle with no actual release. 3.0.5 is the fruit -of these efforts. +Depending on the feedback it will be either followed by yet another beta +release, or by a stable release with the same feature set. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -97,7 +87,7 @@ file named 'config' in the current directory (except Win32 which will look for Or for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions: /etc/rc.d/init.d/privoxy start -Or Debian: /etc/init.d/privoxy start +Or Debian and Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/privoxy start -------------------------------------------------------------------------------